Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel E. A. Ash, Malay State Volunteer Regiment, late Middlesex Regiment and Connaught Rangers, who was decorated for his services as C.O. of the 2/6th Durham Light Infantry

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Lt. Col. E. A. Ash); Jubilee 1935; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service, G.V.R. (Private Ernest Arthur Ash, D.S.O., Malay States Vol. Regiment); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Decoration, G.V.R., silver, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919, the reverse engraved in script, ‘Lt. Col. Arthur Ernest Ash, D.S.O., Private, M.S.V.R.’, obverse and reverse centre pieces loose on the first, official correction to unit on the fifth, minor contact marks and a little polished, otherwise generally good very fine (6) £1200-1500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals The Property of a Gentleman.

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D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Ernest Arthur Ash was originally commissioned in the 5th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment in June 1900, but did not witness any active service until entering the French theatre of war as a Captain in the Connaught Rangers. It was, however, for his command of the 2/6th Durham Light Infantry in the rank of Acting Lieutenant-Colonel that he was awarded his D.S.O., in addition to a mention in despatches (London Gazette 9 July 1919, refers).

Of his subsequent services in the Malay States Volunteer Regiment, the local Government Gazette verifies the awards of his Colonial Auxiliary Long Service Medal and Decoration, relevant announcements appearing under clause No. 3560 of 16 June 1922 and Clause No. 261 of 26 January 1923; sold with five original Great War period photographs; sold with research.